>Joe's asking about the protein content of DDG, Distillers Dried >Grains, the by-product, not the distillate, usually fed neither to >people nor fuel tanks but livestock.
Lol, sounds like a big goof on my part. Although when I was helping the brewmaster at a commercial brewery here in California. There was a farmer who always picked up our spent grains wet. He would get our mashing schedule and show up right as we were dumping the grains into 55 gallon cans. We typically had 8 or more cans full of spent barley and he would take them all. After being curious about his use of them he told me that his cows produced more milk, calves grew faster, and the general health of his cattle was much better when he fed them our spent grains. I had always wondered why I would bury my own grains only to find out my Dachshunds would immediately dig them up and eat as much as they could (obviously sugar content). They only issue with wet grains was that they tended to start to compost within an hour or so of being dumped. In the garden the compost from these grains was amazingly rich. I used it in my garden continuously with great results. Nitrogen content increased. All in all the spent barley are a great product for both feed for livestock and compost and many commercial breweries are only too happy to give you as much as you want. Tad ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
